Slang says a lot about its time, and some of the funniest phrases from decades past are too good to stay buried. These ...

Croxteth comes from the Old Norse word “Croc” and Old English “staep” - meaning “Croc’s landing place” or “river-bend landing place. It was known as “Crocstad” in 1257 ...

Kelvedon is believed to come from the Old English "cylu" meaning spotted or speckled") and dun meaning hill. When considering Kelvedon’s full name Kelvedon Hatch, hatch is another word for gate making ...

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Such pronunciation overlap, particularly after sound changes deleting final vowels on words became widespread, created ...

The old English word Sandwich ... some believe it stems from the Indigenous word Tataket, meaning “at the principal tidal stream,” while others think it comes from the tea parties held ...

He said that those features “are harmful and deserve all the mockery they get,” echoing Buterin’s old comment about S2F ... nine terabytes of disk space, meaning he “can not run it ...

Pagan Saxons worshipped a spring goddess named Eostre. They baked bread during springtime festivals to celebrate new life and longer days. The name “Eostre” is where we get the English word “Easter”.

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